Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-10-29
INTER-OCEAN
GROVER ~PARALYzED

GROVER ~PARALYzED
With the vastness of the West
Why he was not Received.
Special Correspondence of the ISrEn-0cEAN.
WASHINGTON, Oct. &-Referring to the
return of NJ. Cleveland from his cir
cular tour, the Post, which is a great
Democratic daily published here, says:
Essentially on Eastern man by birth,
ancestry. and actual domicile, Cleveland
has shared the general incapacity Of.
Eastern men to. comprehend the wide.
ness ofroom, and "grip" and Ego" which
characterize the great West. Saint Louis
Kansas City, Chicago, st. Paul, Minne-
apolis-these are tremendous object les
son and the impression they made upon
tho Presidents mind must be deep and
lasting. Beyond question, he has today
a much larger impression of the vast
ness and greatness of the United States
than he oyer had BEFORE"
These are words Of sapience and con-
tain nuggets of thought. But that a
Democratic paper should be the first to
accuse him of having hitheto had a mar
row conception Of the size and strength
Of the country, was not to haye been ex-
pected. If the Post imagines that the
fatty degeneration of manhood which
has thus been swung over the country
on an e~lectioneering tour is any better
fitted for the position of chief magistrate
than before, then the Post makes an
egregious blunder. Mr.. Cleveland car
not possibly have learned all about the
great West in three weeks of ovation
and hurrah, That he is a man Of supe-
rior ability, ought by this time to be con-
cedod, for he has demonstrated ability
since his election, for which he was never
given credit even by the men of his wi
party. But that he has the ability to
learn in three weeks what it has cost
other men many years of "hustle" and
dash to learn, is asking too much of hui
man credence. Mr.. Cleveland is posses
sed of a good degree of intelligence, and
a clear brain and plenty of blood; but
his intelligence is still circumscribed by
his past narrowness of life. But for his
wife he would be today a fat failure az
president. The mar whose best years
we're spent between a law Office and a
beer shop canno rise above the sodden
horizon in a short space of time. An
earlier start in politics Inc society
would have made him shine, for he has
the ability. He has misused his time
and opportunities until late in life and
ought never to be praised for qualities
not possessed by him. He has shared
and does share ''the general incapacity
of Eastern men, to comprehend the
Wilderness of room, the YIN and energy
which characterize the great West"
The report of the governor of Dakota
is considered an able document. The
non-partisan reference to the condition
of the people and their right to state
hood is especially c~ommendable. He
says that the people should have a right
to legislate and execute laws for them
selves, II that it makes no difference
whether tho territory is admitted as one
or two states, tho congress should consid-
err tho matter at once. Governor Church
is a Democrat, a carpetbag office holder,
but evidently a man who desires to DO
sincere. The fact is, the Democrats of
congress have so insulted. ignored, brow
beaten, spat upon Dakota, that it is re-
freshing to have IL official Democrat
say something to his fellow c~onfederates,
in favor Of the outcasts of the prairies.
Every state has its congressman hero
already, and some of the senators have
come, also. They are here for the loaves
and fishes, and they want to be attended
to before Grover shuts himself up in the
white house, and commences to help
Dan write that annual message. Dan is
a good writer, and shrewd; but Grover
goes owe it all and supervises it before
signing his name to the document.
The reason the presidcn5 did not re-
ceiye a welcome home in this city was
that he didn't deserve it. American cit
liens at the national capital are not per-
United to vote, but they are permitted to
think, and arrive at conclusions upon
public questions. Democrats and Re-
pnblicans unite in hating the president
for his stolid Indifference to the rights
OF the people. He has imported carpet
baggers of the worst kind, and appoin-
them to offices in this district. When it
was proposed to Luttrell, Norris and
other we'll known Democrats in this city,
that q reception and enthusiastic well
come should be accorded the president
upon his return, one of them said: "Wel-
come him for what? Welcome the man
who imported two negroes and forced
one OF them upon us as register of deeds
for the district, at slo,o 900 a year? We'll
como this man because he has insulted
every intelligent man in tho district ?
Not by any name of means. \ recep-
ton of groans, means and Kisses would
better fit him. But his wife is along,
and it is better to ignore him and his re-
turn And it was so ordered. Glove.
land returned to Washington. where he
is hated, and the s%hrieking of the loco
motive whistle was his only patron OF
triumph.
Kate Castleton has been doing good
business all week at Albaugh's Opera
House. She is a merry fun-making
little woman, and is exactly suited tc
her plays, as the plays are suited to her
The aim Of her life is 10 bring about
those ripples of merriment and laughter
which oxygenize and %rejuvenate the
blood of age and makes the younger
people healthy with happiness, A good